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INSIDE Pitt offers reward for bomb threat information....................2 Big Idea Competition......5 PittNewspaper of the University of PittsburghChronicle Volume XIII • Number 9 • April 2, 2012 Three Pitt Students Receive Goldwater Scholarships The winners bring Pitt’s total number of Goldwater Scholars since 1995 to 38 lege,” said Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. “Our enviable record of student scholarships since 1995— including four Rhodes, six Marshalls, five Trumans, six Udalls, a Gates Cambridge and a Churchill, and, now, 38 Goldwaters—reflects both the talent and hard work of the individual student schol- ars and Pitt’s commitment to excellence in undergraduate education. We are extremely proud of Matthew, Naomi, and Paras and congratulate CHIRDON CHRIS PHOTOS BY CHRIS CHIRDON CHRIS BY PHOTOS each of them for extending Keely McCaskie Naomi Latorraca Paras S. Minhas Matthew A.B. Schaff Pitt’s legacy of student suc- cess.” By Patricia Lomando White “The excitement that these three students have for Pitt Chancellor’s Scholar University of Pittsburgh students in the natural sciences. All three of Pitt’s their research is apparent and contagious,” Naomi Latorraca, a junior majoring in 2012 Goldwater Scholars are enrolled in said Edward M. Stricker, dean of the Uni- molecular biology and history with a minor the University’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School versity Honors College, Distinguished Wins Udall Scholarship in chemistry; Paras S. Minhas, a junior of Arts and Sciences and were nominated University Professor of Neuroscience, and By Patricia Lomando White majoring in microbiology with minors in for the scholarships through the auspices of Bernice L. and Morton S. Lerner Chair at Pitt’s University Honors College. mathematics and chemistry; and Matthew Pitt. “Moreover, their intellectual scope University of Pittsburgh junior and A. B. Schaff, a junior majoring in neurosci- “Attracting and educating some of the includes an admirable combination of mul- most talented students in the world have Chancellor’s Scholar Keely McCaskie— ence and economics, have been named 2012 tidisciplinary academic achievement and who is working toward a Bachelor of Phi- Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship winners become defining characteristics of the University of Pittsburgh and its Honors Col- losophy degree in international area studies for their exceptional independent research Continued on page 3 with a concentration in sustainability in Latin America in Pitt’s University Honors College and bachelor’s degrees in environ- mental studies and in sociology in the Uni- versity’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts Alumnus and U.S. Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho, 43rd Army and Sciences—has received a Morris K. Udall Scholarship, established by Congress Surgeon General, to Be Speaker at Pitt Commencement April 29 in 1992 to honor former Arizona Congress- man Morris K. Udall (1922-98). McCaskie’s By John Harvith and Patricia Lomando White excellent academic record and research on the environment helped her earn the award. U.S. Lieutenant General Patricia D. that the new Army Surgeon General will be “The highly competitive Udall Scholar- Horoho (NURS ’92G), the 43rd Army an inspirational speaker for our graduating ship recognizes outstanding student lead- Surgeon General and the commander of students, their families and friends, and Pitt ers who, through their breadth of study, the U.S. Army Medical Command, will faculty, staff, and alumni in the audience. interests, and activities, have exemplified be the featured speaker at the University A respected national leader who serves as exceptional commitment to environmental, of Pittsburgh’s 2012 Commencement on a model for aspiring women of achieve- tribal public policy, and Native American April 29. She became ment, Patricia Horoho is health care,” said Pitt Chancellor Mark A. the first woman and the emblematic of what an Nordenberg. “Chancellor’s Scholar Keely first nurse to hold these “A respected national individual with a pas- McCaskie is the perfect choice for this positions when she was sionate mission, tireless prestigious award. We congratulate her and sworn in on Dec. 7, 2011, leader who serves as persistence, and intense applaud her contributions to environmental following her nomination personal dedication and issues.” by President Obama and a model for aspiring integrity can attain with “Keely is a remarkable student,” said her confirmation by the women of achieve- a Pitt education. It will Edward M. Stricker, dean of the University U.S. Senate. be a privilege to welcome Honors College, Distinguished University The ceremony, which ment, Patricia Horoho is this distinguished Pitt Professor of Neuroscience, and Bernice L. will include the presenta- nursing alumnus back to and Morton S. Lerner Chair at Pitt. “She’s tion to the Army Surgeon emblematic of what an campus as our Universi- a strong, articulate advocate for social and General of an honorary ty’s 2012 commencement environmental justice that is achieved by doctoral degree, will individual with a pas- speaker.” change through empowerment. She pos- begin at 1 p.m. in the From the position of sesses an extraordinary ability to find allies Petersen Events Center, sionate mission, tireless U.S. Army staff nurse in Patricia D. Horoho who share her vision that the people most with doors opening at 11 persistence, and intense 1982, Horoho has risen impacted by environmental policy decisions a.m. Horoho was honored to serve in many lead- commander. should be listened to.” as a 2012 Distinguished personal dedication and ership roles, including While holding the rank of colonel, McCaskie’s career goal is to lead initia- Alumni Fellow during commander of the West- Horoho became the first woman and first tives in the nonprofit sector that build capac- the University’s annual integrity can attain with ern Regional Medical nurse to command the Walter Reed Health ities of communities facing disproportionate Honors Convocation on Command in Fort Lewis, Care System. She coordinated the health environmental burdens and to advocate for Feb. 24, an event that a Pitt education.” Wash; commander of the care needs of approximately 150,000 service policies that more equally represent them. inaugurated Pitt’s 225th —Mark A. Nordenberg Madigan Army Medi- personnel, family members, and retirees in As a Pitt sophomore and intern at the anniversary celebration, cal Center in Tacoma, the national capital area and oversaw an Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental which continues through Wash.; commander of integrated health system that included its Education and Research at Carnegie Mellon Homecoming Weekend in October. the Walter Reed Health Care System; and hub, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and University, McCaskie conducted the self- “Lieutenant General Horoho cites as one commander of the DeWitt Health Care 10 military facilities in Maryland, Virginia, designed research study “Green Jobs for of the models for her inspirational lifetime Network at Fort Belvoir, Va. She also was and Pennsylvania. Lower Income Communities: Obstacles and of leadership in military health care her Pitt deputy surgeon general in the Office of the When two aircraft collided in midair at Solutions.” She also assessed the MOVE-IT trauma instructor, Pitt alumnus Elizabeth Surgeon General and 23rd Chief of the U.S. Pope Air Force Base in 1994, Horoho was green jobs training program implemented L. Noroian Graham,” said Pitt Chancellor Army Nurse Corps, and she was deployed Mark A. Nordenberg. “We, in turn, believe to Afghanistan as special assistant to the Continued on page 2 Continued on page 3 2 • Pitt Chronicle • April 2, 2012 Patricia D. Horoho to Be Brieflynoted Speaker at Commencement Continued from page 1 one of the first medical personnel to respond Four Inaugural Lectures “Translational Stroke Research: An Expanding Black Hole,” Gallery hours are Mondays through Fridays and triage the wounded, leading the emer- April 4, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The gallery also will be open gency responders who cared for the critically Scheduled injured soldiers. She also took charge of the Gary A. Silverman, Magee/Twenty-Five Club from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. wounded when terrorists crashed a plane University of Pittsburgh Provost and Senior Professor of Newborn Medicine, Pitt School of Medicine, For more information, call 412-648-2430 or into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and was Vice Chancellor Patricia E. Beeson has announced “Of Mice, Worms and Men: The Necrosis in Necrotizing visit www.studioarts.pitt.edu. honored by Time Life Publications for her information on four Provost’s Inaugural Lectures that Enterocolitis Is Not a Done Deal,” April 9, Lecture Room 6, —Sharon S. Blake actions on that fateful day. will take place over the next two weeks. Scaife Hall. Horoho, a native of Fayetteville, N.C., All four lectures will be held at 4 p.m. The George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor and now a resident of Virginia, enrolled in names of the professors and the titles, dates, and of History, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, Pitt Offers Up to Pitt’s School of Nursing when she came to locations of their lectures follow. “Racial Inequality in Brazil and the United States, 1990- Pittsburgh to serve as nurse counselor of Jun Chen, Endowed Chair in Cerebrovascular 2010,” April 10, 2500 Posvar Hall. $10,000 for Bomb the 1st Recruiting Brigade. In addition to Yoel Sadovsky, Elsie Hilliard Hillman Chair in receiving her MS degree from Pitt, Horoho Disease Research, Pitt School of Medicine, Threat Information earned her BA degree from the University Women’s and Infants’ Health Research, Pitt School of of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a Medicine, “Feto-Placental Defense: A Macro Role for resident graduate of the Army’s Command MicroRNAs,” April 12, Lecture Room 6, Scaife Hall. The University of Pittsburgh is offering and General Staff College and the Indus- a reward of up to $10,000 for information trial College of the Armed Forces, where leading to the arrest and conviction of she earned a second MS degree in national Studio Arts Student Exhibition anyone responsible for the recent bomb resource strategy.

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